Dont Quit Your Dayjob

Mitchell Syrop

BornNationalityBased In
N/AAmericanLos Angeles
Biography

Mitchell Syrop’s lithographic and laser pigment prints and installations expose the human condition of being trapped within systems, be they interpersonal, societal, economic or political. Engaging with Syrop’s idiosyncratic use of language, text and found images means being told not to ‘quit your day job’ and reminds us of the irony of believing one is unique. Having studied under the original Conceptualists, including Huebler, Asher and Baldessari, Syrop, along with artists Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer, engaged with commodification, mass marketing and the aesthetics of advertising. The clichés, or slogans of culture, present in Syrop’s work are inserted onto images of cells under a microscope or ‘perfect’, travel-advertising photographs of sandy beaches. Inviting multiple interpretations of his interchange between text and image, Syrop evokes a structuralist understanding of language as a system of arbitrary signs. The private, the public, love, grief, existentialism and subjectivity intertwine in the hands of the artist, whose work reveals human vanity and pride while remaining honest in its own complicity of recycling clichés. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
All Systems Go
Mitchell Syrop
All Systems Go, 1985
121.9 x 152.4cm
All men are created equal…
Mitchell Syrop
All men are created equal…, 1982
100.9 x 75.5cm
Be. Have
Mitchell Syrop
Be. Have, 1986
76.2 x 101.6cm
Clutch Throttle Choke
Mitchell Syrop
Clutch Throttle Choke, 1985
60.9 x 50.8cm
It is better to shine than to reflect
Mitchell Syrop
It is better to shine than to reflect, 1984
101.6 x 76.2cm
Lift and Separate
Mitchell Syrop
Lift and Separate, 1984
59.4 x 49.5 x 2.5cm
Pull Yourself Together
Mitchell Syrop
Pull Yourself Together, 1998
110 x 161cm
Sit in Judgment
Mitchell Syrop
Sit in Judgment, 1982
71.1 x 170.1cm
The Same Mistake
Mitchell Syrop
The Same Mistake, 1998
137 x 106cm
Untitled
Mitchell Syrop
Untitled, 2003
101.6 x 152.4cm
Dont Quit Your Dayjob
Mitchell Syrop
Dont Quit Your Dayjob, 2015
270 x 380cm
This Is My Work
Mitchell Syrop
This Is My Work, 2011
40.6 x 50.8cm
Gallery Representation
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